Duplicate Galleries

Thomas Lawrence

I'm new here, so I don't know if this has been asked before, but I did search and found nothing similar to this.

The problem is I have duplicate galleries; I uploaded using the smugmug uploader and my thinking was that there would be some kind of check to see if such a gallery already existed...apparently not.

If the smugmug uploader allows duplicates, then I will have to be more careful in the future, if not, there is a bug, but it's a smugmug uploader bug and where do I report that?

Thanks.

denisegoldberg

I'm not sure what you mean by duplicate galleries.

Having more than 1 gallery with the same name but in a different category / subcategory is not a duplicate - that would be two separate galleries that happen to have the same name. They would have a different album ID and key, and they would need to have unique nicenames.

What do you mean by a duplicate gallery?

--- Denise

Thomas Lawrence

I am attaching a snap of what I mean; the pic shows 6 galleries or folders. Three rows of two columns each. The first two rows have duplicate galleries, the third row does not. Granted they were uploaded at different times and the later ones have a description attached, but essentially they are the same galleries with the same names.

denisegoldberg

Are the galleries you are showing in that screen shot in the same or different categories? Again, you can have the same name for galleries that are in different categories.
http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photo

The fact that there are descriptions on some but not all of the galleries on that screen shot leads me to believe that they are different galleries with the same name but in different categories. If that's the case, it's not a problem. If the galleries are in the same category then perhaps there is a problem.

--- Denise

jfriend

denisegoldberg wrote: »

Are the galleries you are showing in that screen shot in the same or different categories? Again, you can have the same name for galleries that are in different categories.
http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photo

The fact that there are descriptions on some but not all of the galleries on that screen shot leads me to believe that they are different galleries with the same name but in different categories. If that's the case, it's not a problem. If the galleries are in the same category then perhaps there is a problem.

--- Denise

You can have 20 galleries all with the same name in the same category. Galleries are accessed by their gallery number or their nicename, not by the actual gallery name so gallery names can be anything and duplicate names are not prevented (that is up to you).

I'm not sure what the actual issue is here. Why not just delete the duplicate galleries and be done with the issue or if they actually contain different photos, then change the name on one of them to be unique?

Thomas Lawrence

OK, thanks, John.

I'll delete the extraneous gallery.

denisegoldberg

jfriend wrote: »

You can have 20 galleries all with the same name in the same category. Galleries are accessed by their gallery number or their nicename, not by the actual gallery name so gallery names can be anything and duplicate names are not prevented (that is up to you).

Ah - I knew that the true key to the galleries is the album id / key combination, but I didn't realize that the galleries within the category could have the same name. That makes more sense than not since the gallery name is not the key.

Sorry about any misdirection!

--- Denise